Sentence examples for meters of material from inspiring English sources
Most break away suddenly, releasing thousands or even millions of cubic meters of material and crushing anything in their path.
The fires didn't cause any additional damage to buildings, but one incinerated 18,000 cubic meters of material, enough to fill about seven Olympic-size swimming pools.
The now-solid Tava deposits apparently flowed from vast reservoirs of once-waterlogged sand, some of them containing more than 1 million cubic meters of material.
The largest earthquakes can trigger tens of thousands of landslides throughout regions of tens or even hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, moving millions or billions of cubic meters of material down slopes.
Although erosion can remove as much as 6 meters of material in mountainous areas (such as in the Grand Tetons in the above background) each millennium, in gently sloping areas (foreground) wind and water may strip away as little as 0.5 millimeters per year.
Over a period of a year, the six streams might thus remove: That means every year on the order of 220 cubic meters of material, or about 20 dump trucks full of rock and soil, might be removed from a mountain by normal stream erosion.
The neutrons and gamma rays reveal only ice contained in the top meter of material, he says, and that amounts to only a tiny fraction of the water found on the surface of Earth.
In the late 1990's, as part of a legal settlement, $10 million was invested to restore the Penn Mine site by moving approximately 290,000 cubic meters of waste material to a lined, on-site landfill; all impoundments were removed, natural stream channels and surface water flow were restored, and more than 10 hectares of riparian habitat were enhanced.
The event involved the movement of cubic meters of volcanic material.
Until recently, its exact location was unknown, since it is buried by several meters of sedimentary material from the Alfeios River.
DARPA receives "some tens of meters" of proposal materials each year.
